A Radically Holistic Take on Greatness | Lewis Howes
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
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🗓️ 2 March 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
When you hear the term “greatness,” what do you think? For most people, images of world-class athletes, innovators, performers, leaders or industry or arts come to mind. The best of the best in any field. Those who push harder than anyone and everyone else and succeed on a scale most can only dream of. But, what if that’s not actually greatness at all? What if greatness was more about how you show up in your life, and lead with service and humanity? That’s the argument that my dear friend, New York Times best-selling author, keynote speaker, industry-leading show host, and former pro-athlete, Lewis Howes, makes.
"Greatness,” according to Lewis, “is about service to other people in the pursuit of your dreams, making sure that everyone else wins around you while you're winning and empowering people around you while you grow and succeed."
He believes that success alone will not bring joy, but we must also fulfill our inner peace, free ourselves emotionally and mentally, and have clarity on what direction we want to go in. Only then can we live our highest version of ourselves and be the best version of ourselves. Many of these ideas are detailed in his new book, The Greatness Mindset: Unlock the Power of Your Mind and Live Your Best Life Today. We dive into key elements in a powerful and revealing way in today’s conversation.
You can find Lewis at: Website | The School of Greatness podcast | The Daily Motivation podcast
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| 0:00.0 | I know there is no perfect life and I know that there's going to be adversities and challenges. |
| 0:05.4 | And my intention is how can I show up when challenges arise in life or in the world or in |
| 0:11.8 | societies or my team and being poised and courageous to take on the challenges from a state of peace |
| 0:18.9 | and freedom, not from a state of scared, not enoughness and needing to look good because that |
| 0:24.8 | causes me to be tight and tense under those stressful situations. So that's the goal is to keep |
| 0:29.5 | refining who I am internally and emotionally so that I can execute externally. |
| 0:36.4 | So when you hear the term greatness, what do you think about? For many people, images of |
| 0:42.1 | world-class athletes, innovators, performers, leaders of industry or arts come to mind. |
| 0:47.8 | You know, the best of the best in any field. Those who push harder than anyone and everyone else |
| 0:53.3 | and succeed on a scale most can only dream of. But what if that's not actually greatness at all? |
| 0:59.6 | What if greatness was more about how you show up in your life and lead with service and humanity? |
| 1:04.8 | That is the argument that my old friend, New York Times bestselling author, |
| 1:09.1 | host of the School of Greatness podcast and founder of greatness.com, Lewis Howes Makes. |
| 1:14.4 | Greatness according to Lewis, it's about service to other people in the pursuit of your dreams, |
| 1:19.5 | making sure that everyone wins around you while you're winning and empowering people around you |
| 1:24.6 | while you grow and succeed as well. So driven to fill an inner void, Lewis spent much of the first |
| 1:30.3 | 35 years of his life on this relentless quest to be the best in the world at whatever he said yes to. |
| 1:37.1 | And I've known Lewis for something like 15 years now. So I have seen that part of both his |
| 1:43.1 | journey and his struggle. He was so driven to succeed and did in fact end up performing at |
| 1:49.1 | astonishing levels, building a tremendous business representing the United States on the |
| 1:54.4 | global stage as an athlete and checking all those societally ordained success boxes until he realized |
| 2:01.2 | he was being driven almost entirely by his own sense of woundedness and pain and all the |
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